Al-Khaṭīb (1) said: “He was reliable, devout, and righteous.”
I add: He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā of the year 407 AH.
Allah placed affection for him in people’s hearts; in his circle the poor were treated like princes. He earned his living by making skullcaps and subsisted on the wages of his own hands. He built a school and an infirmary, endowed charitable properties, and maintained an endowed library of books (2).
154 – al-Jarrāḥī ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh
The shaykh, the upright, the trustworthy: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Jarrāḥ ibn al-Junayd ibn Hishām ibn al-Marzbān al-Marzbānī, al-Jarrāḥī, al-Marwazī.
He was born in 331 AH in Marw.
He later settled in Herat, where he taught the Jāmiʿ of al-Tirmidhī, transmitting it from Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥbūb the merchant. Large numbers took the book from him, among them: Abū ʿĀmir Maḥmūd ibn al-Qāsim al-Azdī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ghurajī, Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad—Shaykh al-Islām, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Tiryāqī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAlāʾī, and others.
He arrived in Herat in 409 AH.
Al-Muʾtaman ibn Aḥmad al-Sājī said: “Al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Ṣaffār narrated this …”